College of Staten Island professor and archivist Dr. James Kaser wrote the study of the Island’s Elliottville.

True learning, said William Howard Day, is not the “extent” of memorizing lines from textbooks but the “depth” of knowledge. “And the depth will never be sounded until the mind of the student can by ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Historians, veterans, and Rockford residents gathered at Veterans Memorial Hall to learn more about the history of local abolitionists at a “Civil War Roundtable.” The event ...

Program recognizes more than 800 locations in the U.S. and Canada with connections to the Underground Railroad. Brown was the ...

“Cassius Marcellus Clay: The Life of an Antislavery Slaveholder and the Paradox of American Reform” entertains other possibilities. Its able author, Anne E. Marshall, is a professor of history at ...

With the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the war merged with the abolitionist cause. The Proclamation had included an unexpected clause: at last, black men could enlist in the armed services ...

The party -- The puritan -- The pioneer -- The patriarch -- The pauper -- The plan -- Pottawatomie -- Pariah and legend -- The promoter -- Plotting multiculturally ...

A continual torment -- The first American martyr -- A difficult year -- A field of blood -- The distant goal -- The African mirage -- The Constitutional rag -- The ameliorative President -- Soft ...